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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the British term for what Americans call private high schools?

2. Where was Ramanujan born?

3. What was the significance of Erode in Ramanujan's family?

4. What was G. H. Hardy's status in Britain?

5. For how long would Ramanujan's condition persist?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the difference between English mathematics and Continental mathematics.

2. What was Hardy's experience at Winchester?

3. What gods did Ramanujan's family worship?

4. What practices did Ramanujan follow as a result of his religion?

5. What does 'A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics' consist of?

6. Describe the importance of 'A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics' in Ramanujan's life.

7. How did Ramanujan's temperament reveal itself when he was a child?

8. Who were the Apostles?

9. What led to Ramanujan getting married?

10. How did Ramanujan distinguish himself as a math student?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What did Ramanujan use math for? What problems did he solve with it? Were they abstract mathematical problems, or life problems? How did math solve Ramanujan's life problems? Where did it fail to?

Essay Topic 2

What do you think is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence?

Essay Topic 3

To what extent was math a social enterprise for Ramanujan? How much did his career depend on other people? What made other people believe in him? What values did those people have that made it important to help Ramanujan?

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